Description

Kamila Andini is a mother and filmmaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her concern of social culture, gender equality and environmental issues fuels her passion to make films with a distinctive perspective of telling a story. In 2011, she released her debut feature film ‘The Mirror Never Lies’, which portrays the life of sea wanderer in Indonesian ocean. And in 2017, she released her second feature ‘The Seen and Unseen’; a cinematic universe of dualism based on Balinese philosophy Sekala Niskala. Both films had traveled through more than 50 film festivals around the world and received about 30 awards nationally and Internationally, including Grand Prix winner best feature film in Berlinale Generation kplus 2018. She also creates some short films to show her voice and vision in filmmaking. After ‘Following Diana’, ‘Memoria’, and ‘Sekar’, her last short film ‘Back home’, was part of an omnibus for Japan based production ‘Angel Sign’. Lately, she is also expanding her directing works into theatre. Her debut theatre work based on her second film; ‘The Seen and Unseen’ was performed at Esplanade Singapore 2018 and Asia Topa Melbourne 2019. And the latest one is a monologue, stage and virtual performance, ‘Nusa yang hilang’. Her third feature film, “Yuni,” an Indonesian, Singapore, French, Australian production, will have its world premiere in the Platform Competition of the Toronto International Film Festival. She is also working on her fourth feature; an intimate film, set in 1960’s, unfolding the right and wrong of a woman’s life. ‘Before, Now and Then’ (working title), is now in production stage.

In solidarity with the CAUT censure of the University of Toronto (see censureuoft.ca), the event is hosted by the Toronto Film and Media Seminar and supported by the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto. This event is organized in the spirit of commitments to anti-racism, gender, and religion equity.